Wednesday, 7 May 2014

Passion playtime

Written to be performed at the Art House-hosted launch of Grant Sharkey's album Free Nuggets - the 3rd of 40 albums planned to be released over 20 years. The theme of the night was 'passion' and it landed around Easter...

Rhyme of passion

Passiflora edulis, flowers' elaborate sex-organs, botanical baboon-bums on display for all to see and sniff and lick (that’s bees), fruit split and parted by deft fingers, practised thumbs, sticky seed-mass probed with tongues, while Easter Sunday mornings are more fun with tousled tumblings, duvet bundlings than Via Dolorosa sufferings, a two-thousand-year old tale used to summon church-roof funding from ex-Brigadiers, broad-‘tached and grumbling that ‘eating’ wasn’t so messy in their time but hey – pleasure isn’t guilty and passion’s not a crime.